Comment # 3 on bug 918541 from Glenn Doig

Hello,

# ll /tmp/tmp*
/tmp/tmp9N5bbT:
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4164 Mar  9 15:02 pkglist-0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4160 Mar  9 15:02 pkglist-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4153 Mar  9 15:02 pkglist-2

/tmp/tmpMkuvwo:                                                                 
total 24                                                                        
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4164 Mar  9 15:04 pkglist-0                             
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4160 Mar  9 15:04 pkglist-1                             
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4153 Mar  9 15:04 pkglist-2                             

/tmp/tmpjIHcXT:
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4164 Mar  9 15:06 pkglist-0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4160 Mar  9 15:06 pkglist-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 4153 Mar  9 15:06 pkglist-2


# stat /tmp/*/pkglist-0
  File: ���/tmp/tmp9N5bbT/pkglist-0���
  Size: 4164            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 802h/2050d      Inode: 19334       Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2015-03-09 15:02:56.000000000 +1100
Modify: 2015-03-09 15:02:56.000000000 +1100
Change: 2015-03-09 15:02:56.000000000 +1100
 Birth: -
  File: ���/tmp/tmpMkuvwo/pkglist-0���
  Size: 4164            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 802h/2050d      Inode: 19363       Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2015-03-09 15:04:11.000000000 +1100
Modify: 2015-03-09 15:04:10.000000000 +1100
Change: 2015-03-09 15:04:10.000000000 +1100
 Birth: -
  File: ���/tmp/tmpjIHcXT/pkglist-0���
  Size: 4164            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 802h/2050d      Inode: 19388       Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2015-03-09 15:06:21.000000000 +1100
Modify: 2015-03-09 15:06:21.000000000 +1100
Change: 2015-03-09 15:06:21.000000000 +1100
 Birth: -

I removed all crontab entries.

I`ll put back the crontab entries and see if the number of files increase.
- Current count:
# ll  /tmp/*/pkglist-0| wc -l
3

Need to wait some time weeks/months and I`ll another count then.
--Glenn